Natalie Agee

Natalie Agee is an acrobat and performer of most everything, from modern dance to hula hoop acts, singing in stairwells to chinese pole circus tricks on lampposts. 

Recent collaborations include work with Julia Steele Allen, David Neumann's advanced beginner group, C. Ryder Cooley, and Diana Y Greiner. 

She has been choreographing and performing her own work in New York City since 1995. Among the venues where her work has been performed are: The Kitchen, DanceSpace Inc. (now DNA), The Brooklyn Lyceum, P.S. 122, The Zipper Factory, Dixon Place, Judson Church, SomArts (San Francisco), Charm City Kitty Club (Baltimore), and many others.

She wrote songs and played guitar in a quirk-rock, electro-pop band called "n.a. + a.n.", with musician/composer Aimee Norwich. You can get a copy of their original, super-dancable CD by clicking here.

Natalie is a founding member of Bessie and Obie award-winning LAVA, a Brooklyn-based performance group that blends dance, wrestling, theater, improvisation, and circus vocabularies. She performed, choreographed, and taught with this amazing group (in theaters, at festivals, and in schools and universities across the country) from 1997 to 2006.

She has performed in works by David Neumann/ advanced beginner group, Paige Martin, Andrea Ariel, D-9 Dance Collective, Llory Wilson's Talullah Dance Company, Joy Kellman, Leslie Partridge, Patricia Wolf, Sharon Fogarty, and Adrienne Truscott, among other independent choreographers.

She is the founder and director of Ruby Streak Trapeze Studio--a warm, community of students, collaborators and friends who take classes, train, create, and share their work in the space. Ruby Streak's mission is to create a positive environment in which developing voices are celebrated and empowered. Championing diversity, individuality, and the invention of new vocabularies, are at the heart of the studio's work in the world. 

Natalie has taught workshops and classes in Static Trapeze, Corde Lisse, Chinese Hoop Diving, Acrobatics, Handstands, Dance, Composition, Pilates-based Conditioning, and Injury Recovery/Prevention to people of all ages, and from all walks of life. Her classes focus on blending core strength connectivity, flexibility, and technique with live energy, radiance, and passion. Her teaching methods are an eclectic blend of many different movement techniques/theories that she has studied throughout her lifetime within the realms of dance, kinesiology and circus.

The Velveteen Rainbow is the name of the space that houses the Ruby Streak community. Here, artists can develop work and hold events for their art, music, film and inter-disciplinary performance in a safe, supportive environment, at affordable rates.

Over the years, she has had the great opportunity to take classes with brilliant teachers/performers at The Circus Center (San Francisco), Circus Oz and Vulcana Women's Circus (Australia), and at NECCA (VT).